Purchasing Coordinator

The Opportunity

Dessert Holdings is a leading baked goods platform providing premium layer cakes, cheesecakes, brownies, bars, and other desserts to the retail in-store bakery ("ISB") and foodservice channels on a largely private label basis. We are a rapidly growing company comprised of The Original Cakerie (acq. December 2015), Lawler's Foods (acq. July 2016), Atlanta Cheesecake Company (acq. January 2018) and Steven Charles (acq. December 2021). We are poised for continued growth by bringing high quality products to both retail grocery and food service across North America. Led by a senior team with strong company pedigrees and experience driving improvement – we have exciting opportunities to be a part of this high performance, growth focused organization.

Position Mission:  The Purchasing Coordinator is an important part of the supply chain process. This individual contributes to the success of the organization by supporting the procurement organization through consistent management of data and information.  

Responsibilities Include:     

• Maintain procurement data and documentation in accordance with internal procedures within ERP.
  • Create New Items numbers in ERP by direction of R&D
  • Update Pricing tables by direction of buyers
• Request and file receiving documentation (COA, BOL) as requested by operations, QA, or warehouse.
• Execute and follow through of SharePoint requests by direction of buyers
• Execute the process and follow through of non-conformance reporting to assure submission and the completion of any return of product to suppliers (RMA).
• Request credits from suppliers as needed. 
• Report generation to support purchasing department
  • Daily replenishment report to buyers
  • Daily Open PO reporting/Late PO reporting to buyers
  • Schedule change report generation as required (daily)
  • Monthly material usage calculation report
• Support corporate projects requiring detailed follow-up from procurement
  • SKU rationalization/commercial projects: weekly documentation of inventory & costs
  • Create purchase orders for test materials – requested by R&D
• Participate and supports projects associated with the supply chain to improve productivity.

Education/Training/Experience:

At least 2 years’ experience of administrative experience, preferably in procurement and/or manufacturing environment.

Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with ERP systems and tools.
• Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Detail oriented
• Team and service oriented
• Must possess clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills
• Problem Solver